xenocara/app/xdm/daemon.c

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*/

/*
 * xdm - display manager daemon
 * Author:  Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium
 */

#include <X11/Xos.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

#include "dm.h"
#include "dm_error.h"

/* detach */
void
BecomeDaemon (void)
{

    /* If our C library has the daemon() function, just use it. */
#ifdef HAVE_DAEMON
    if (daemon (0, 0) < 0) {
       /* error */
       LogError("daemon() failed, %s\n", _SysErrorMsg (errno));
       exit(1);
    }
#else
    switch (fork()) {
    case -1:
       /* error */
       LogError("daemon fork failed, %s\n", _SysErrorMsg (errno));
       exit(1);
       break;
    case 0:
       /* child */
       break;
    default:
       /* parent */
       exit(0);
    }

    if (setsid() == -1) {
       LogError("setting session id for daemon failed: %s\n",
                  _SysErrorMsg (errno));
       exit(1);
    }

    chdir("/");

    close (0);
    close (1);
    close (2);


    /*
     * Set up the standard file descriptors.
     */
    (void) open ("/dev/null", O_RDWR);
    (void) dup2 (0, 1);
    (void) dup2 (0, 2);
#endif /* HAVE_DAEMON */
}